The Fenyes Orloff Parr Trio

THE FENYVES - ORLOFF - PARR TRIO

Tuespay, MARCH 13, 1984

Water HALL

8 PuM.

PROGRAM

Sonata in A major, Op. 69 LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
for cello and piano
Allegro, ma non tanto
Scherzo - Allegro molto
Adagio cantabile
Allegro vivace

Sonata in A major for violin and piano CESAR FRANCK
Allegretto ben moderato
Allegro
Recitativo - Fantasia
Allegretto poco mosso

INTERMISSION

Trio in D minor, Op. 49 i FELIX MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY
for piano, violin and cello ,
Molto allegro ed agitato
Andante con moto tranquillo
Scherzo - Leggero e vivace
Finale - Allegro assai appassionato

THE FENYVES, ORLOFF, PARR TRIO

This “remarkably precise ensemble" (John fractond: Globe and
Mail - Toronto), whose members are all internationally acclaimed
soloists, was formed nine years’ ago when pianist Patricia Parr
returned to her native Toronto te join the Faculty of Music,
where her two colleagues, Lorand Fenyves, Violin, and Viadimir
Orloff, cello, were already on staff.

The Trio has given several concerts on CBC Radio as well as

regular appearances in concerts at the University of Toronto
and throughout Ontario. All. the standard works for this instru-

mentation are included in the Trio's repertoire, and they are
often joined by other instruments and voices to add to their

versatility.

Lorand Fenyves started his concert career at the age of 13 in Vienna
and in his native Budapest under the baton of Felix Weingartner. On
the eve of World War II, leaving behind him a well established
concert career in Europe, he moved to Israel; founded the Israeli
String Quartet and was co-founder of the Israeli Academy of Music

in Tel Aviv. During this period, Fenyves appeared as soloist

with the Israeli Philharmonic ‘in over one hundred concerts in

Israel and throughout the Middle East. In 1957 Fenyves estabtished
residence in Switzerland and performed extensively with orchestras
and in recital throughout Europe. While living in Geneva, he per-
formed almost the entire concerto literature with 1'Orchestre de

1a Suisse Romande alone. At the same time he conducted master
classes of international renown at the Geneva Conservatory - drawing
students from all over the world. A violinist's violinist, a pioneer
in the musical life of Israel? and one of Europe's leading violin
teachers and performers, his distinguished European reputation pre-

ceded his North American debut in 1965 which was received with unan-
‘imous acclaim from both public and press. Fenyves, now a professor
emeritus at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Music, continues

to-.reeeive plaudits from his ever-growing international audience.

ORLOFF /

Viadimir Orloff was born in Odessa, and received his first cello

lessons from his father, himself a professor of cello and a soloist.

He graduated with first prize from the Music High School in Bucharest
in 1947, and in the same year made his debut with the Bucharest

‘Philharmonic under Constantine Silvestri.. In 1953 he was nominated

State soloist, and was awarded first prize at the Bucharest Inter-

’ national Compatition: this was followed by the first prize in Warsaw

in 1955 and in Geneva 1957. Imnaediately following the Warsaw prize,
he was engaged to perform throughout Eastern Europe and played with
all the most important orchestras there. In 1964 he was giving con-
certs in Vienna when he decided to stay in the West. In 1967 he was

appointed Professor Extraordinary at the Vienna Academy of Music.

Orloff became a professor at the University of Toronto in the autumn

‘ of 1971. He has taken part in the Prague Spring Festival, the

Budapest Bartok/Liszt Festival, the Bucharest George Enescu Festival,
the BBC Promenade Concerts, the English Bach Festival and the

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Carinthischer Sommer Festival in Austria.

He continues his international career each year with concert tours

in South Africa, Austria, Belgium, Holland and England.

PARR

Patricia Parr, born in Toronto, Canada, has been. playing the
piano since she was four. At age six, she gave her first -
recital, and at nine she was engaged to perform with the Toronto
Symphony. This was followed by appearances with the Rochester
Civic Orchestra and the New. York Pops in Carnegie Hall. She
had the distinction of being the youngest artist ever to play
with these orchestras. In a Town Hall recital at age . she .
won the acclaim of the New York critics.

At. fourteen, Miss Parr was awarded a double scholarship at the
Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia to study piano under
the eminent teacher Mme. Isabelle Vengerova, and composition -
under Gian Carlo Menotti. Subsequent to her graduation in 1955,
she received a postgraduate scholarship to study for two years
with Rudolf Serkin. Since then she has been heard in: concert,
radio, television and with major orchestras throughout Canada —
and the United States. She has appeared as soloist with the |
New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Cleveland
Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony, the Pittsburgh Symphony , and

has gained a highly respected reputation for her superb talent

as a chamber music artist. In that capacity, she toured Australia
in the springs of 1975 and 1978 as a member of the Trio Concer-. ~
tante,; has appeared for Marlboro Music (Marlboro Music Festival,
Vermont) and with the Guarneri String Quartet. Miss Parr is a
eeokaeser at the Faculty of. Music, University of Toronto. ©

Next event: Special: Music Convocation, Convocation Hall
An-honorary degreg.with-be conferred on violinist
Yehudi Menuhin; preceded by." ‘choral and brass: music,

“-performed by the .U. of T. Concert Choir,-University .

Singers,. and the Brass. Choir; with John Tuttle.
ard March, 4, 1984, at 3:30 p. |